Especially if you feed it to your children...Please look up the dangers of Aspartame on the web. It is absolutely shocking that they allow anything this harmful to be legally put in our foods.Here are some of the possible side effects of consuming Nutra Sweet...
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
ALS
Memory loss
Hormonal problems
Hearing loss
Epilepsy
Alzheimer's disease
Parkinson's disease
Hypoglycemia
AIDS
Dementia
Brain lesions
Neuroendocrine disorders
2007-07-25 13:42:12 · 8 answers · asked by BERT 6 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
I also want to add that when it is heated, such as in jello it turns to formaldyhyde!
2007-07-25 13:43:39 · update #1
Don't use the garbage period. There's been a huge movement in this country to get this stuff banned. All of the above (and more) is true. It's also been documented that diet drinks are so addictive, they've been called "the new crack" in America. Not to mention, everytime this stuff has been tested on lab rats, they've all come down with cancer. If you want to lose weight, drink more water.
2007-07-25 13:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
First of all, like another poster said, there is still no known cause for MS, and some of these other diseases. I know for a fact that MS has been around since the late 1300's or early 1400's and different sugar substitutes were a lot later put out there.
When I was first diagnosed with MS, I got all kinds of e-mails, including one like the info you posted, and so did my mom. We sent it to a family member who happens to be a Neuro Pharmacologist and teaches at UC Irvine Medical School, and she is the one that stated the above.
I rarely drink a diet drink and my cousin said once, she is probably one of the biggest diet coke drinkers and is very healthy, and that most of the diseases such as MS, ALS, tend to be genetic in nature, MS is possible an auto immune disease, and there are auto immune diseases in my family. I am the only one with MS that I know of, but it is possible that my dad had it.
If you want to know more, go to snopes.com , type in aspartame, and you will see it is an urban legend. No matter how much we want to know, we grab at straws, wantinig to know why, etc. The rumor you posted has been going around for a long time.
2007-07-25 16:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by FlyingEagle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably nothing will happen to you, but my personal philosophy is to avoid artificial sweeteners altogether, because no long term studies were done before being approved by the FDA. So, saccharin, aspartame, ace K, sucralose--I don't trust any in large and/or regular quantities. Saccharin is the only one that I know of for sure that is a known mammalian carcinogen (rats), but we are talking about seriously large dose to weight ratios, so the impact at usual food doses over a normal human life-span could be entirely negligible for this and all sweeteners...just hard to know in my opinion
2016-05-18 05:12:18 · answer #3 · answered by ginny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know! I can't imagine the people who decided it's safe for human consumption!
Remember that most sugar-free gum contains aspartame. If you want sugar and aspartame-free gum, try Whole Foods.
2007-07-25 14:08:15 · answer #4 · answered by xx. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for all of that information. I wasn't aware, but I do know that I get horrible migraines when I ingest either of those. I totally stay away from both of them.
2007-07-25 13:48:01 · answer #5 · answered by Funny Girl 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First of all they do not know what causes MS. Secondly you do not get AIDS from sugar substitutes! I don't know where you got this list but it is not a scientifically researched list.
2007-07-25 13:47:20 · answer #6 · answered by Pook 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Egads! I never knew aspartame had all this bad stuff in it! Thanks!
2007-07-25 13:46:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am glad you are spreading the word. Thanks.
2007-07-25 15:23:45 · answer #8 · answered by bountyhunter101 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋